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Lake zooplankton diversity
Description
These data give the number of known
crustacean zooplankton species for 69 world lakes. Also included are a number
of characteristics of each lake. There are missing values.
Format
This data frame contains the following columns:
- Species
- Number of zooplankton species
- MaxDepth
- Maximum lake depth, m
- MeanDepth
- Mean lake depth, m
- Cond
- Specific conductance, micro Siemans
- Elev
- Elevation, m
- Lat
- N latitude, degrees
- Long
- W longitude, degrees
- Dist
- distance to nearest lake, km
- NLakes
- number of lakes within 20 km
- Photo
- Rate of photosynthesis, mostly by the 14C method
- Area
- Lake area, in hectares
- Lake
- Name of Lake
Source
Dodson, S. (1992), Predicting curstacean zooplankton species
richness, Limnology and Oceanography, 37, 848–856.
References
Weisberg, S. (2005). Applied Linear Regression, 3rd edition. New York: Wiley, Problem 8.12.
Examples
data(lakes)
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alr3 version 1.1.7
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